Recognizing the importance of strategic procurement, Dutch chemical company Royal DSM – a global, purpose-led leader in health and nutrition, applying bioscience to improve the health of people, ...

A year after COVID-19 sent shock waves through the world’s supply chains, creating the most significant global disruptions in history. The pandemic served as an unfortunate wake-up call for companies ...

There’s been much talk of federal spending this year. Two of us have written on the flow of federal resources, and how locals prepare for major shifts. As we have noted, a critical part of federal ...

When we write about supplier diversity models that should be scaled, adopted, and adapted, our first inclination is usually to focus on state and local governments, or innovative private sector ...

In February, Governing released a report ranking 39 states based on their procurement policies. They were ranked in 10 categories, including their use of technology, how they engage with vendors and ...

In February, Governing, sister publication to Government Technology, released a report ranking 39 states based on their procurement policies. They were ranked in 10 categories, including their use of ...

Not surprisingly, up until now lean procurement has heavily focused on cost as it is a significant percentage of a company’s revenue (often ranging from 50% to 70% of sales) and to some degree on ...

It’s been described as the worst deal Queensland ever negotiated — an initiative that started out looking for ways to fix IT delivery to government agencies, and ended up in a failed payroll project ...

When David Laity founded social enterprise Goodwill Wine almost a dozen years ago, giving back was already a huge part of his life, which had been upended by losses sustained in Australia’s Black ...